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Choose your Leader
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George Patton - Get’r Done kinda guy!
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@Imperious:
Colonel Harland Sanders
just read that, laughed for 5 minutes
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@Imperious:
Colonel Harland Sanders
just read that, laughed for 5 minutes
Well at least the troops would get fed.
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But seriously, I would go with Patton.
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I would have to go with Chester Nimitz. He led the US fleet and marines to many victories over the course of world war II
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@flyboy:
I would have to go with Chester Nimitz. He led the US fleet and marines to many victories over the course of world war II
Finally someone agrees with me (if you check my post from the previous page). 8-)
Nimitz played a very important role for the US.
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I’d have to go with Moltke.
Amazing man.
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Ghengis Khan
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Fred G. Sanford
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@Imperious:
Fred G. Sanford
The only person he led was a guy referred to as “dummy”
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You left out Shady Graddy, Skillet, Leroy, and Bubba.
Yes i know too much about that show.
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Fred G. Sanford
i wont be able to get the song out of my head for days now
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I would choose Rommel to lead the ground forces and Chennault of the Flying Tigers to lead the Air Force.
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In truth, though, I feel that Napoleon and Alexander the Great are very much underestimated, especially Napoleon.
Read up on Napoleon’s work, especially all that he did for the French people. Imagine the effects he could’ve had if he hadn’t invaded Russia… or if he lived longer…
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Hannibal Barca
From WW2: Erich von Manstein and Mannerheim (Finnish marshal who kept Soviets from entering Finland soil and with little loss of Finnish soldiers).
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For me…there is only ONE Desert Fox…Field Marshall Erwin Rommel…He attacked like a tornado…where he went…there was only VICTORY…if only Hitler had given him the support he asked for in North Africa…who knows how that campaign would have ended?
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And the fact that his archenemy, Montgomory, only dared to attack while Rommel himself was in Bavaria, recovering from a desease (don’t know the English name for that desease…) says a lot!
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And the fact that his archenemy, Montgomory, only dared to attack while Rommel himself was in Bavaria, recovering from a desease (don’t know the English name for that desease…) says a lot!
Umm, the commonweath had waaaaay more supplies and troops and would’ve won even if Rommel was there. Him not being there would just make the job easier.
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Ummm actually, the reason that Rommel failed in North Africa has way more to do with his supplies being disrupted by malta then anything the British did on the ground in Egypt. Rommel had even said that in order to take Egypt, first malta had to fall, which he had said before he had taken command. Rommel got distracted by something shiny, (Cario and the Suez) and forgot.
British command in Egypt, was some of the worst, and it didnt do them any good that they had the bombastic nutcase in London shouting at them to attack when they shouldnt of. The whole reason the axis forces pushed in to Egypt in the first place was because the utter failure of operation crusade, which was launched before it should have been.
Had malta be silenced, and Rommel had the supplies he needed, I dont think he could have been stoped short of Palastine and direct American involvment.On another note, I think Joe Stillwell would be my choice for army commander. He was a top notch commander, who, during the 1940 army manuvers, which was supposed to take 2 weeks, He won in the first 2 days.
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